Kevin Findlay
London
A technology manager with, surprise, surprise knowledge of technology and engineering. However I also have a background in commercial strategy consulting so can talk product, investment marketing and sales. I know how to do the numbers.
My most recent work has been running the Waitrose web and mobile e-commerce teams introducing Agile, TDD/BDD and devops while keeping the show on the road with projects such as "Click and Collect", Pick Your Own promotions, Hiku, new search engine technologies, integrated route scheduling and front end redesigns.
Prior to Waitrose I ran a consulting firm with clients such as Vodafone, Channel 4, PriceWaterhouseCoopers MacMillan Publishing and DigitalTheatre.com.
I was also the Directory of technology consuIting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Strategy.
Aside from improving the performance of teams I have a strong coding interest in data architectures, machine learning and AI. My current projects are in recognizing repeating structures in web pages and text analysis of product data. This is coded in Hadoop, Map-Reduce and Mahout.